Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler

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Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler.
Grave site of Georg and Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler at the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (status 2013)

Hans Dietrich Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler (born February 13, 1852 in Berlin , † November 14, 1908 in Donaueschingen ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

Hans Dietrich was the eldest son of General Manager Botho von Hülsen and his wife Helene , née Countess Haeseler.

Military career

In 1870 he became a lieutenant in the Kaiser Alexander Regiment , attended the military academy and in 1882 he was assigned to the General Staff . In 1889 he was made the wing adjutant of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

In 1894, Hülsen was raised to the rank of count and at the same time also took his mother's maiden name , so that from this time on he called himself Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler.

In the same year he became a military attaché at the embassy in Vienna from October 23, 1894 . In 1895 Hülsen-Haeseler was promoted to colonel and returned to Berlin on September 21, 1897 as commander of the Guard Fusilier Regiment . In 1899 he was promoted to major general as chief in the general staff of the Guard Corps . In the autumn of the same year he was given command of the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade .

In May 1901 Hülsen-Haeseler became head of the military cabinet . In 1902 he was promoted to lieutenant general and in 1906 to general of the infantry.

Grave in the Invalidenfriedhof , Berlin

Sleeve Haeseler died in 1908 in Donaueschingen in a heart attack while on a hunting event at the Castle of Max Egon II. Fürstenberg before Emperor Wilhelm II. As a ballerina dressed in Tutu had danced. The circumstances of the death were hushed up because the officers corps was under considerable public pressure because of the Harden-Eulenburg affair and Hülsen-Haeseler organized the purge. With Wilhelm II, who was under considerable public pressure due to the Daily Telegraph affair , the general's death caused a nervous breakdown .

Hülsen-Haeseler was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin .

family

He had married Hildegard von Lucadou (* 1875), daughter of the later Prussian Lieutenant General Armand von Lucadou (1826-1911) in Berlin on November 24, 1892 .

Web links

Commons : Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John CG Röhl: Contemporary history: The emperor speaks. In: The time. December 19, 2008.
  2. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , p. 303, no. 2896.
personal data
SURNAME Hülsen-Haeseler, Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hülsen-Haeseler, Hans Dietrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1908
Place of death Donaueschingen